Edo / Tokyo print designer and book illustrator. Pupilfirst of Yanagawa Shigenobu II and later Utagawa Kuniyoshi, He produced bijinga, kaika-e, musha-e, omocha-e, specializing in pictures of Western circus performers like his oban, nishiki-e triptych, 'Great Circus from France' (Furansu daikyokuba, 1871), in a Kuniyoshi style.